June 6, 1944: 3/8: Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc — the Rangers Who Landed at D-Day and Fought Across Europe,by Patrick K. O’Donnell, with John Pruden as narrator. Blackstone Audio, Inc. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
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June 6, 1944: 3/8: Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc — the Rangers Who Landed at D-Day and Fought Across Europe,by Patrick K. O’Donnell, with John Pruden as narrator. Blackstone Audio, Inc. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
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It is said that the right man in the right place at the right time can mean the difference between victory and defeat. This is the dramatic story of 68 soldiers in the US Army's Second Ranger Battalion, Company D — "Dog Company" — who made that difference, time and again. From D-day, when German guns atop Pointe du Hoc threatened the Allied landings and the men of Dog Company scaled the sheer 90-foot cliffs to destroy them; to the slopes of Hill 400, in Germany’s Hürtgen Forest, where the Rangers launched a desperate bayonet charge across an open field; to a "quiet" section of the Ardennes, where Dog Company suddenly found itself on the tip of the spear at the Battle of the Bulge; the men of Dog Company made the difference.
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI in the World. I'm John Bats with Patrick O'Donnell. His book, Dog Company, |
| 0:07.9 | The Boys in Ponte de'Arc. The ranges who accomplished G-Day's toughest mission led the way across |
| 0:13.2 | Europe. It is 6th of June, sometime around between 7, 20 and 8 o'clock in the morning. |
| 0:20.3 | The landing crafter all coming into Omaha and Utah at this point. Also, there's the |
| 0:27.5 | British and Canadian and French forces landing further to the west. However, all of that is |
| 0:33.3 | vulnerable to those German guns at the top and they must be destroyed. The assault is led by |
| 0:40.2 | assault team A, Dog Easy and Fox. They've been training for this and they have a machine that is |
| 0:48.8 | new to assault forces anywhere. I don't know that they needed it before. It's a gravitational |
| 0:54.8 | hook fired by a rocket. Patrick, my memory of your detail is that it was to be launched from |
| 1:00.8 | the landing craft. Is that corrected? Did they carried them to the shoreline? Most of them |
| 1:05.9 | were launched from the landing craft and it was a rocket propelled graph metal, as you mentioned, |
| 1:12.3 | which shot the rope up. But this was a tenuous situation. Most of these ropes were literally wet |
| 1:19.5 | from the seawater as they were coming into landing craft. From the top of the cliff, the |
| 1:26.5 | Germans were using mortar rounds and anger aids and things were, there was a lot of chaos |
| 1:35.3 | in the landing area. It was very rough and tumultuous. These men fire the grapnals and they |
| 1:42.1 | started to climb up the cliffs. Part of the cliff faced the shore bombardment as well as |
| 1:49.8 | the bombardment for the bombers had collapsed part of the cliff, which made it difficult, but |
| 1:56.2 | also in some cases a little bit easier to climb. But they still had to go up this cliff against |
| 2:03.1 | machine gunfire from MG-42s, which could fire a, or the sounding rate of almost 1,500 rounds |
| 2:11.1 | per minute when they were fully operational. The Germans were feeding belt after belt into |
| 2:19.0 | these machine guns. They were lobbing hand grenades as the Rangers were scaling the cliff. This |
| 2:26.2 | is truly one of the most extraordinary stories of World War II. Like many of my books, the story |
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